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JgRnaifc anfi |aris. ? The department of justice, headed by Attorney General Daughcrty. has ruled that American craft, whether belonging to the shipping board or not, nra prohibited from carrying intoxicatiry; Jiquors. Also the department, holds that foreign ships canr.ot lawfully bfAig liquor into American territorial waters. This applies to all American territorial waters, including island possessions except the Panama canal 2die, which is especially exempted in the 'acts. The regulations to prevent the bringing of whisky into American natters by foreign ships have not yet b&eh worked out. Chairman I^ascar J oi tjie shipping: board insists that DftUghertjN's ruling means the death knell of American shipping. ' ?? A drive to place hides and long staple cotton on the dutiable list was opened in Washington, Saturday, by the Southern Tariff association, when it adopted a resolution petitioning congress to reopen tariff discussions and levy duties on these articles for the benefit of farmers. Resolutions urging t^e -president to use the flexible tariff pppvisions of the new tariff measure "to make such adjustment^ in the schedules as will equalize the cost of production between this and foreign countries" and to appoint representatives of agriculture and allied indus- | tries to the tariff commission were also adopted. The association, meeting in aT "victory congress s a rtsuu ui no recent successful efforts In obtaining with manufactured products, will equal tariff legislation for raw material ""/roaden and continue" its work, it h is been decided. --Investigation of the cotton situation, including cotton exchange operations, by the senate agricultural committee, under the resolution of ?fej^|itor Smith, South Carolina, will bi'gin about the List of November, Suitor Heflin, Alabama, stated Friday after a conference with Senator Smith. A conference of senators from tjie 'cotton states, Senator Heflin said, would be held to map out a program. The Alabama senator said that this in vestigation would develop wnat methods "have been and are now being employed to evade the law, munipu. lafle^otton prices and control the market," 'and would determine whether cotton exchanges were helpful or hurtful to the cotton industry and whether regulative legislation should be enacted Mr. Heflin said that the cotton situation warranted better prices than now are being paid. ? The National Grange, regarded as cne of the strongest agrarian organizatidnb in the country, will launch a campaign against extravagance in state governments at a national meeting which will bo held in Wichita, Kan., beginning Nov. 14. Twenty thousand ditkgqtt^iVfiU^bo.pr.escfit, Tbp (..range representatives claim that while the Federal expenditures are being1 cut down slightly, the state expenditures show no signs of dropping, but maintain their upward trend. The Federal taxation superimposed upon state, local, school and town taxes, they claim, make a burden which is much heavier than is generally known. The treble system of taxation, they claim, makes the American people the most heavily taxed people in the world. Figures compiled by the organisation show that the costs of Federal and state governments since 1915 have increased 800 per cent., despite an alleged decrease, mostljTin Federal government expense of $1,300,000,000 since 1921. ? A sensation has been caused by a letter from Andrew Bonar-Law, upholding the British government's attitude in the Near Eastern crisis which is given conspicuous publicity in all tno lajncion newspapers. xmr announcement is widely held to be equivalent to a direct threat to withdraw the British troops from the Kbine and completely terminate the entente, unless France comes into line with the British policy in the Near East. Bonar-Law's position as potential head of the potential conservative government in the near future and his intimate relations with several of the present cabinet ministers are regarded as giving his view special weight. "We arc at the straits and Constantinople," said the letter, "not by our own action alone, but by the will of the allied powers which won the war, and America is one of those powers. We cannot alone act as the policeman of the world. Our duty will be t j say plainly to France that, if she is rot prepared to support us, we shall he unable to bear the burden alone, but we shail have no alternative, except to imitate the example of the United States and restrict our attention to safeguarding the more important in terests of the empire." The general opinion of the newspapers is that the letter is timely and commendable. ? Friel Allen and Sida Edwards were turned out of the Virginia penitentiary lust Friday on conditional pardons. They were members of the famous Allen clan, and participated in the shooting up of the Hillsville, Yu., courthouse on March 14, 1912. Governor E. Lee Trinklc says that the men are reformed and worthy of a new start in life. The shooting in the courthouse at Hillsville followed the conviction of Floyd Alien on a charge of moonshining. The jury was still in the box when Judge Miissie, after passing sentence of one year's imprisonment, ordered the sheriff to "take the prisoner in charge." At this point Allen leaped to his feet and shouted: "No man shall ever take me to the penitentiary!" The shooting followed. Judge -Massie was among the first to fall, find when the firing ceased the i bodies of the commonwealth's attorney, the sheriff and Juror Foster were j found near where the nu-n had stood, j Miss Ayers vrr?- found among the sjieetntor.V scats so seriously wounded that she died next day. The prisoner, Floyd Allen, also was seriously wounded, but he recovered only to expiate his crime six months later. Siclna Allen and Wesley Edwards, two other members of the clan, serving 35 years and 27 years' imprisonment, respectively, for their part in the affair in which the presiding judge, Thornton i l>. Massie, Commonwealths Attorney W. M. Foster, Sheriff L. F. Webb, Augustus Fowler, a juror, and Miss Betty Ayers, a spectator, were killed, and Dexter Goad, court clerk and several jurymen were wounded, were denied elemcncy because "they have served too short a time for their punishment." The two other members of the clan were electrocuted at the state prison J for their part in the shooting. 7t he jHarferitb (Enauirw. i " ' * Entered at the Postofflce at York, as Mall Matter of the Second Class. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1922. It is very clear now that if the United States had gone into the league of nations the Turk would not have come back into Europe. But as the matter stands, it appears that Turkey is the real winner of the World war, and she * ** ~e IAOIahsv nas won uctiiusc m ^ iuuw? ? ?? of England. There is nothing the matter with Representative Bradford's proposition for free text books in the public schools. The fact is the books ought to bo furnished free, especially for the primary grades. But if Mr. Bradford is able to get his bill through, it is to be hoped that he will not overlook the I importance of requiring uniform adoption in nil the schools. There is no sense, as we see it, in specifying the books that must be used in the rural schools, and leaving the town schools ?especially the graded schools?liberty to select as many different kinds of books as they want. . England and France. France was more than once at the J -a - r nn tKn cnnnp-A fllir pom L UL I III U \> liife Up w?v. ing the World war, and except for the glim tenacity of the British she would have done so. From beginning to end Great Britain never had a thought of surrender? she never had a thought of anything except victory .in, the end. Although the .propaganda was that America went into that war on account of France?largely for sentimental reasons?there is not much to that. It was on account of Great Britain and herself that America went into that war. Twist it and turn it as, we may, the stability of European and American civilization hinges on England more than on any other country. No sooner did America help France out of her scrape by beating back the Germans, than did France begin to swell up in the head and assume an attitude of having done the whole thing by her lonesome. She seems to have forgotten all about the desperate straits to which she had been reduced, and she seems not to have the slightest suspicion of a fact that most of the world confidently believes?that she would hardly be a match for Germany even now. It is hardly conceivable that Eng] land is going to bear with the present | French attitude much longer, and the i world need not be surprised to see some startling changes in the existing situation before a great while. Efficiency of the Courts. The case of Torn Harrison for the murder of his wife in December, 1920, comes up for a second trial in Green-* ville this week. At the first trial it was disclosed that ; Tom Harrison, a wealthy character of ; t lie underworld, had killed his wife beI cause of a preference for her sister, the killing being based on a pretext I of misconduct with another man. Ar: thur Young, who was also seriously wounded by Harrison. ? l ? ? il<II I 1MM1 Wcl2> mail, slaughter, where he should have been convicted of murder, and was sentenced to the penitentiary; but by reai son ef his wealth he was able to get out on bond and resume his adulter| ous life with ids sister-in-law. In due course, and as a matter of course, he was allowed a new trial on one quirk or another, and now the farce is to be prosecuted to a Until ae- , quittal, unless his money is exhausted i in the meantime. j The substance of the testimony for ; ' the defense in the first trial was that I Harrison, during the course of a party ] in his own home, came upon Young attacking Mrs. Harrison and that Mrs. Harrison was accidentally killed by , one of a series of bullets that was be! ing fired at Young, who was also seriously wounded. Young denied that! ' lie had attacked Mrs. Harrison. The information yesterday was that 1 Young had left the state and was in j Asheville; but as to whether he had i run away through indifference, bribery i or patched up friendship, or whether he would be back to testify along the ' same lines as at the first trial, was open to conjecture. It is a nasty affair?the whole bus- , iness, and whether there is a final conviction or not, the proceedings have i j not added to the confidence that the j Ipy jjtbllc is'entitled to have in the Administration of the laws. Taxed as it is to maintain the courts, the public has a right to look to those courts for honest efficiency, and whether such inefficiency comes through dishonesty, stupidity or whatever other cause, it seems that there should be a readjustment. Too Much Taxes. One of tho darkest shadows perhaps that is overhanging the present and future of this country, is the steadily growing tendency toward the exploitation of tho productive power of the people by means of taxation. We had that issue in the last state campaign, which opened with a common appreciation of the ever growing tendency toward more, more, more, and wide apprehension as to when, where and how it would stop. That was really the only issue in that enm>>nt ?,v tho timn tlm campaign was well under way shrewd propaganda had produced a feeling of apprehension that had completely overshadowed the only considerations with which they had real concern. When it comes to the motives of the respective candidates, for the sake of argument, it is just as well to admit that they were all the same. In the case of each we will say that the lure is power, prestige, honor and salary. Of course none of the candidates will admit anything like that, but the average citizen may take his choice. . What the average voter wants is honest government economically administered. And where the average voter gives careful consideration to the subject, ho does not want any more government than is absolutely necessary. He wants protection for life and property, he wants school facilities in keeping with his means, and he wants ?nrh road imnrovement as he is able to pay for. But what the average volcr wants is one thing, and what he gets is another. The South Carolina of toddy has changed from the South Carolirri of ten years back. In the South Carolina of ten years ago the dominant idea of government was that a public office was a public trust, and the keynote of that trust was not to require the taxpayer to give up to the government one single dollar more than was necessary for the essential requirements of that government. The predominant rule was not the finding of new ways to spend; but rather more diligent care to save. But now the dominant idea is how to spend the people's money. We have fallen into the hands of hordes of people who have never had a speaking acquaintance with honest production by their own efforts; but wno una plcasureable excitement in spending the substance of the toiling masses. We have reached a point where it is no longer possible to get an appropriation even for the most primary essential of government unless there is included in the rake off great slabs of graft to be divided up among parasitic hordes representing themselves as equally important to the public welfare. The long and short of it is that the producing masses of South Carolina are being oppressed to annihilation, and although they see it, feel it and know it, their situation is so desperate as to be almost without even hope of relief. ? Foreign and American vessels sailing for the United States after October I I, next, will be subject In the terms of the nrohibition act re j iating to bringing intoxicating liquors ! into American territorial waters, it was announced at the treasury department Sunday. Decision to defer in the case of these craft tho enforcement of Attorney General Dougherty's ruling with respect to the prohibition of the transportation of liquor cargoes or stores was made by President Harding. The executive, in a letter to Secretary Mellon, said any earlier attempt at enforcement in the absence of due notice and ample regulation "would be inconsistent with just dealing and have a tendency to disrupt needlessly the ways of commerce. This delay in enforcement does not apply to the sale of intoxicating liquor on vessels sailing under the American flag," the president said. Immediate cessation of such sale was ordered by Mr. Harding after the attorney gen! eral's ruling had been presented to him. Masters of shipping board ves? sols were ordered by Chairman Hasher to remove and surrender to treasury officials all intoxicating liquors aboard such ships. The order became effective immediately as the ships eni tor their home ports and will bo made j effective on those at sea and in foreign ! ports upon their arrival in tho United I Slates. "If any officer or member of the crow, either on passenger or car| go ships," the order said, "is found thereafter possessing liquor on his ship, he shall immediately be removed permanently from the service and his violation of the law reported to the proper district attorney." A formal notice was sent to foreign steamship lines and to lines operating privately owned American craft. Meantime, Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair is hr.ving formulated the necessary regulations. Although not yet officially advised of Mr. Dougherty's opinion, the foreign diplomats have notified their homo governments with the Intention of supplying officially information as soon as it could ho obtained from the state department. ? Sam Ruekalew, former captain and recreation officer at the United States public health service hospital at Camp Sevier, was found guilty in Federal court in Greenville Saturday of forgery. He was charged with forging cheeks belonging to disabled soldiers I who weror patients at the hospital. . AFFAIRS, | NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. W. E. Ferguson?Yoa will find what you want here. Kirkpatrick-Bclk Co.?Big saving in men's and boys' wear. Peoples Bank and Trust Company? Ben Franklin said a great many wise things in his day. Sam M. & S. E. Grist, District Agents ?The supreme test. York Hardware Company?Good rains. York Furniture Company?Get ready now. Johnson Cameron and others?Notice to trespassers. S. S. Glenn, W. M.?Special communication of Alpine Lodge. W. W. Miller, County EngineerNotice to paint contractors. rc A. Hall. Mayor?Special election. J. L. Houston, l'robatc Judgo?'Notice of application for letters of administration on the estate of William L. McCleave, deceased. Star Theatre, J. Q. Wray, Manager? Elsie Ferguson today in "Footlights." First National Bank of Sharon?Success. Logan Lumber Yard?Real estate prices arc now advancing. There is no more water in the Catawba than it needs; but it is evident to all observers that except for that great dam at Bridgewatcr, there would be a great deal less than there is. DELINQUENT Tf KES "When tho time for the payment of taxes without the usual penalties expired last June, there was an unpaid" balance of ?64,142.78, and since then there has been collected the sum of ?43,748.64, leaving to go into the hands of the sheriff last week, in the form of executions, ?20,934.14. These executions were apportioned among the townships as follows: Bethel $ 324 46 ' Bethcsda 2,185 63 Broad River ? 3,433 51 Bullock's Creek 316 45 Catawba - 20.9S0 92 Ebenezer 7,541 79 Fort Mill J? 5,260 27 King's Mountain 1,055 05 York 2,350 56 NEGRO SHOOTS WIFE Jim Shealy, negro, thought the hammer on his breech loader was down when he pointed 'the gun at his wife, Mary Shealy and hex daughter at their home on the Carroll place on York No. 4, Sunday morning. It wasn't and Mary received a lot of shot in the arm while her daughter was shot in the face. Neither is regarded as being seriously hurt. Jim had been called out to shoot a hawk that was after the chickens. He chased the hawk and shot at it and missed. Upon his return to the house his wife, began teasing him about missing: the hawk. "Bet I could hit you," said Jim and raising the gun he fired at the mother and child, sprinkling them. The wife told the^samc story and Jim was not arrested on a charge of criminal carelessness, ?i THE MARRIAGE RECORD Marriage licenses have been issued by the judge of probate to the following: Oct. 2?Allon Watson and Lillian Mills, Itock Hill, (colored). Oct. 3?George M. French, Ansonia, Conn., and Nellie B. Hart, Yorkvillo. Oct. 5?Orcal Massey and Ida Beckham, Bock Hill, (colored). Oct. 6?Clarence Brookshire, Greenville, and Cora Vaughn, Bock Hill. Oct. 7?Willie Loyd and Narcic Clark, Yorkvillo. Oct. 7?Kelly L. Wright and Vergie Smith, Yorkvillo. Oct. 7?Blair Clanton and Ada Armstrong, High Shoals, N. C. Oct. 7?Will Anderson and Fannie Pong, York township, (colored). Oct. 7?William E. Leonard and Rosie Lee McKee, Clover. GASTON COUNTY FAIR The gates of the Big Gaston County Fair Grounds were opened this morning to receive the crowds that have since been surging ?iro?igh them to sec the vast array of exhibits that have been gathered fpr the occasion. It is a remarkable. showing of the greatest of the kind that has ever been seen in this section. For those who are interested in such things there are | splendid specimens of fine cattle, hogs and chickens. The farm products exhibits are numerous and excellent and the department of fine arts manufactures arc well calculated to astonish. Because the fair had just been moved into its new quarters last year the management was inclined to offer iiuiu |Ul nut IIUWII.K tilings up to a standard satisfactory to itself. Hut no apologies are being offored this year, for the bis show is able to stand on its merits. ABOUT PEOPLE. It. T. Castles of Smyrna, was among | the visitors in Yorkville yesterday. Mr. S. S. Glenn of York No. S, was .among the visitors in Ydrkvillc yestcr- : day. Mr. and Mrs. J. Thornwell Crawford of McConnellsville, leave tomorrow for j a trip to Niagara Falls, New York and other points in the East. "Withers Adiekes, who is working at Mountain Island, N. C\, visited tiie family of his mother, Mrs. Helen Adiekes, in Yorkville, recently. Mrs. S. C. Ilollifield and children, j who have been visiting the family ??>f Mrs. Ilollifield's father, Mr. John A. Itycrs. at Sharon, have returned to ! their home at Bamberg. Rev. A. K. "Whitesides of Pleasant Hill, passed through Yorkville today on his way to Catawba presbytery which I meets at Tirzah. , Col. W. W. Lewis of Yorkville, is of, opinion that he could qualify as a proof readej* in view of tiie much experience ' that lie has liud us a member of the South Carolina Codo commission. The i Code of Laws of the state is published every ten years and this is publication year, the state printers having promised to deliver it about December 1. There will be four volumes of it, including about 4,000 pages, and it has been a part of the duty of Col. Lewis to read the proof, hence his qualifications. CATAWBA PRESBYTERY With an opening sermon preached j by Rev. S. J. Hood of Lancaster, the retiring moderator, the fall meeting of Catawba presbytery of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church convened in Tirzah church, of which Rev. R. D. Byrd is pastor, this morning. There were quite a largo number of ministers and elders in attendance upon the opening session and others came during the day. It was expected that the work of the presbytery would carry the body into session through tomorrow, although it is not unlikely that the work will be completed today. Rev. It. A. Lummus of Richburg, Chester county, is moderator of the body. An educational sermon to be preached by Rev. W. P. Grier, pastor of Clover, Bethany and Crowder's Creek churches will be a feature of the meeting. Elder Itoss Love is representing the A. II. P. church of Yorkville at the meeting' of presbytery. ALONG THE WAY Colored man carrying his young son along asked permission to show the boy the court room in the courthouse yesterday. "Ah wants fo' to show him the prisoner's dock an' where de jury sits an de jedge an' all de odcr menses in de hope dat when he grow big he won't want to go dere," he explained. Spreading of the top soil on the West road between the chain, gang camp and the R. E. Hartness place was started this week between showers of rain, it was stated this morning. The work of spreading the top soil has been held up for weeks because or lack of rain, it was explained. Barbers are beginning * j notice a j decrease in the number of bobbed hair [ cuts, it was stated this morning. Many pretty girls?not all littie girls cither, who have been coming to the barber shops to have their hair cut are coming ( no more. According to the barbers, it is all because some French "bloke" has decided that bobbed hair Is not to be fashionable any more and because long skirts are coming into style again. Former college foot ball players and others of foot ball experience have been invited by Coach Gressette of the Yorkville school team to come out each afternoon and furnish practice I for the school eleven for tho game j against Chester High in Yorkville next Friday. WEST ROAD CONTRACT John L. Carroll, road contractor, has been awarded a contract by the State Highway commission to build a stretch of the 'West road from the Mullock's Creek bridge to the town of | Sharon, it was announced today. The [ distance Is about two and one-half I miles. The amount of the bid was not made public and it was stated j that the contract was let privately. Some time ago a bid on this project made by Stewart & Jones, contractors of ltoek Hill was refused on the ground that it was too high. Contractor Carroll, who has been doing much highway construction work throughout the state in the past several years, is expected to begin work on the West road project within a very short time. His road forces are now finishing up some road work in the lower part o. state, it is stated. I The three con. .issioners for the I West road appointed by the York I county legislative delegation were not consulted by the state highway commission with reference to letting the contract and the announcement was as , much news to them as any one else. I However, they understand thoroughly j the proposition that they are only j "figure herfds" anyway, since tlie high way connssion nas coiniiinr tnu.6>. of the new road now in construction. Contractor Carroll is a native of Yorkvillc, a son of the late Thad T.. ; Carroll and a brother of J. I*. Carroll, i of this place. His brother, Roy Car- ] roll, formerly of Yorkville is employed ! with him in his road construction work. WITHIN THE TOWN ? Alex Fewcll is building a new 1 residence on East Jeffersop street on i the site of his residence which was ! destroyed i?y tire several months ago. ? Considerable improvements are boing made in the Ixtckinore Cotton Mill Village. The mill houses are bc} ing repainted and otherwise improved. It is understood that the mill is operating full t.'me, both day and night. ^ ? Easiness as usual was brisk last Saturday morning with the ladies who .......I,,.,t tlm s?ir>l. mni-L-pt nr 'Vnimli'v More" in the front porch of the old Uo.se Hotel liuilding on South Congress street. Receipts from sales totaled about $10 and <i"ite a variety of country produce were offered us usual. ? While few if any of the musical and dramatic comedies are coming to ^ Yorkville this fall and winter for cxhibitions, one of the biggest minstrel : shows <in the road is scheduled to appear here in November, according to a young fellow who keeps up with the J ' shows. This minstrel company is l traveling this year in automobile 1 trucks, a. rather new departure in the 1 theatrical wiyld and it is believed that Ihe coming attraction tis going to prove pleasing and popular. ? Poultry fanciers of Yorkvllle report that "sore head" is proving fatal to many of their choice fall fryers as well as mature fowls. The disease appears to be more or less common with chickens throughout the town and despite the fact that they have used lard, shoe polish, axle grease and almost every other suggested remedy, the remedies do little toward checking the disease. One Yorkvillc lady said this morning that she had lost fourteen fryers from "sore head' within the past two weeks. ? Nine quarter-baked boys amused themselves Sunday night by chasing each other and other people along the street with a dead snake which one of them had tied by a string. The boys were so rude as to throw the snake at the feet of several young women who were on their way to church. "If you boys can't stop this I can stop it," remarked the night policeman to one of the boys when Ul~ -*4^-4 ...... t U/.1M C*..n Ilia il l H 111 KMX ? ItllllTU. LV IIIU11 HUHday evening behavior. The young fellows beat a hasty retreat to a section of town where church services were not in progress. ? Seventy years r.gOi according to his claim, Cieorge M"Utor? well known old colored man of forkvillo helped to build the chimneys to what is commonly called the "Dixon house" on King's Mountain street which house was built in 1852 by the late Josh Dixon. The house which was almost destroyed by fire several weeks ago while occupied by the family of O. C, Taylor, is now being completely torn down and old George has been assisting in tearing down the chimneys that he helped erect seventy years ago. ? Stories to the effect that there is an unusual amount of liquor in evidence on the streets here of late arc without foundation, according1 to Chiel of Police Ed Steele. It is ginger and extract that is most popular or rather that is most used by the booze-hounds according to the chief. The .greater percentage of the "drunks" who ar* brought into police court have beer imbibing ginger or some sort of extract or patent medicine and not corr liquor or any other kind of liquor Most of the parties who drink liquor according to the policeman, don't fal! into the hands of the cops and thcii tipsy conduct is not so noticeable. H is the extract-ginger jab fellows whe put gray hairs in the heads of the cops. PUNTt AND PASSES Yorkville High lost the first football game of the season to Fort Mil High in Fort Mill last Friday after noon 5S to 0. It was just simply a matter of being1 outclassed and that is all there was to it and the locals attempted no alibi. While it was generally expected that Fort Mill would win, due to the fact that their team is much heavier and more experienced than the locals, still it had beer hoped that Yorkvill? could hold 'em tc a closer score; but it didn't pan out that way. The boys across the Catawba made rings around them at will Worth Youngblood was practically the whole Yorkville team in the first regular mixup of the season and if the other ten men had been on the job tc anything like the extent he was there might have been a different story tc write. Captain O. E. Grist of the locals was badly kicked in the face ir the battle and several other member.' of the team came home bearing humps and bruises. The eleven is nol disheartened and neither is Coacli Gresselte; but will spend this week ir hard practice for next Friday's game in Yorkville when they go up against the husky Chester crowd. "While Fort Mill was licking Yorkville last Friday Coach Logan's hustling Rock Hill High eleven was trouncing Kershaw to the tune of 31 to 0 anil Chester High was taking the Porter Military Academy crowd of Charleston \in tow to the tune of 25 to 0. Winthrop Training School was defeated by Lancaster High. Winnsboro High was scheduled to play Chester High in Chester last Friday '?ut the Winnsboro bunch took "cold feet" or something and announced they wouldn't meet the date. The talk is that Winnsboro will be ruled out of the Association for the balance of tlu* season because of her failure to fill the engagement. A number of football fans went to Fort Mill with the Yorkville team Friday afternoon and with pain and anguish witnessed the overwhelming defeat of the locals. Rain fell after the game was well under way and it was determined that Yorkville was no match for Fort Mill and there was a lot of fans wlio wished the rain had come before the game started. It is hoped that there will be a big turn out next Friday afternoon for the same with Chester. "Well Al, the old world's serious came to a rather untimely end last Sunday when the New York 'Giants took the 5 end of a 5 to 3 score and was official!) pronounced the greatest baseball players in the world while the New York Yanks they played against was unofficially cussed by us fellows who was betting on 'em .as the biggest bunch of bone-head, cripple-limbed, yellow-streaked, brainless boobs in baseball. The game Friday ended in a tie, each of the teams gettin* three runs after ten innings and if the umpires hadn't called off the game on account of darkness when the sun was a till shining down here in Yorkville why the Yanks might have won. They started off Saturday afternoon with the Yanks getting two scores in the first inning and the Giants no scores. In spite of that a fellow right here in i'orkvillo bet another, fellow fifty cents worth of cigars against $} worth of smokes that them Giants would win anyhow and dad blamed if they v didn't, because the Giants made 4 runs in one frame while the Yanks ! was making three runs in 9 frames. The dope in the daily papers Sunday 1 morning had it that the Giants would wind it up that day and they did. You know Al, up east they go to baseball ' games instead of the Methodist church to hear Rev. Huggin on Sunday and about all the pray-in* there was In N. Y. Sunday was for either the Yanks or the Giants to win that old ball game. Maybe all the fellows that was betting: seegars on the Yanks was not prayin' as hard as was those who had their mazuma on our opponents bocause the Giants won 5 to 3. But you know AI, baseball is like women and politics and the cotton crop, you never can toll how it is going to turn out. P. S. I,can't smoke no seegars this week because all my seegar money is in the possession of the fellow that bet on the Giants. The only way I know how to get even now is to guess exactly right on Mr. Jim Page's cotton crop contest; but I know I wouldn't guess that on account of being so unlucky. You know Al, if it was to rain diamonds I believe I would be in jail." LOCAL LACONICS. Output cf the Gins. The output of the York county gins up to September 25, 1922 was 5,716 bales against 6,552 bales up to the same date In 1921. 1 Painting Olivet School. Trustees of Olivet school have re- , contly repainted the school house and . made other improvements that give it a most attractive appearance. Trustees of the district are Messrs. S. V. Aycock and Sam Hafner. , Whopper Blacksnake. r Ed Brandon and Orin Louthlan, I brought into Yorkvillo Sunday nfter noon a blacksnake that they had kill, ed during the morning on York No. 5 ancl which was almost a3 large as such snakes ever seem to grow in this i locality. It was seven feet and seven . inches in length. Chester Magistrate Resigns. Information was received in York- , ' villo yesterday to the effect that 1 Magistrate H. H. Shannon of Chester, has agreed to hand in his resignation 1 to the governor to take effect on Nov' ember 1. The resignation,- it is alleged, has been brought about as the result of the magistrate's immoral conduct. News For Fox Hunters. Gastonia Gazette, Oct. 3: There will 1 be a fox chase Tuesday night, starting at nine o'clock from the rock crusher near Mr. Jim Falls' residence in the Crowder's Creek neighborhood. All who are interested in the sport are * invited to join in the chase. Mr. Lamar Iiankin is to furnish the fox, a pretty half gray and half red animal. Colored Boy Breaks Leg. A young colored boy, the sor of a tenant named George Bryant who lives on the Courtney place three miles north of Yorkville, was up a tree after a 'possum Saturday afternoon. He lost his hold and fell to the ground, breaking his leg at the hip, the bone, protruding through the flesh. Rock Hill Gas Row. Judge James E. Puerifoy at Winnsboro tomorrow expects to hear arguments of Rock Hill attorneys who \ seek to make permanent a temporary ' injunction restraining the Rock Hill t Gas Company from exceeding the i franchise specifications in charging i for gas. Attorneys for the gas com' pany will present the case of the com- , pany. The city council of Rock Hill claims that the gas company has re cently violated tneir pledges oy cnarg ing more for gas than they had promised to charge when granted a ! recent franchise. I ? Clifford Hayes, a young man of 19, has been committed to the Sum, mersct county New Jersey jail on the charge of having murdered Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Rcinhart Mills on the night of September 14. It is quite a complicated affair involving elements of doubt. The arrest was made on the strength of a story told by Raymond Schneider, 22, who says that Hayes did the killing in the belief that he was shooting at 15-year-old Pear Bahmer i and her step-father Nicholas Bahmer. The two young men, according to Schneider, saw Pearl and her stepj father going in the direction of tho 1 Phillips farm. Schneider, although married, is in love with Pearl. Tho two followed. Hayes produced a 32 ; calibre pistol and said he would fix them. Coming on two people under an ' a nolo tree Haves commenced firintr and killed them both. That was Schneider's story. Hayes says the story Is a He. He admits that he and Schneider saw Pearl and Nicholas I IJahmer walking along in the direction of the Phillips farm and followed. Arriving at the farm they heard shots j and screams and saw an automobile moving away rapidly. Under the tree they found the bodies of the minister and Mrs. Mills. Schneider says that is a lie. Pearl Bahmcr says that she walked out with her step-father to give him air and try to sober him up, ho being drunk. She tried to turn back and lie forced her to go on. They heard shooting and screaming and saw an automobile. Schneider could not i explain why Mrs. Mills's throat had been cut from ear to ear, or how tho two bodies had been laid out for burial. Tho story lacks a good deal of being satisfactory; but at the same time it is believed that the statements of these i people can give more light. It was Schneider and Hayes who first discovered the bodies of tho murdered minister and his choir leader.